Prerequisites
- A monday.com account that can see the boards you want CloudThinker to read.
- Permission to authorize CloudThinker through monday.com’s OAuth flow.
- A CloudThinker workspace where monday.com is not already connected.
Agents see exactly what the authorizing account sees. A board that account cannot open stays invisible to CloudThinker.
Setup
1
Open CloudThinker
Navigate to Connections → monday.com in your CloudThinker workspace.
2
Start the OAuth flow
Click Connect to open monday.com’s authorization page.
3
Authorize CloudThinker
Sign in to the monday.com account that can access the boards you want to use, then approve access.
4
Return to CloudThinker
After authorization, CloudThinker stores the OAuth tokens and shows a Connected status.
Connection details
monday.com uses OAuth — there are no connection fields to enter manually. CloudThinker stores the tokens automatically after the authorization flow completes.Required permissions
CloudThinker inherits the monday.com access granted during OAuth.- Read operations cover the workspaces, boards, items, updates, docs, users, teams, automations, and sprints the authorizing account can already open.
- Write operations — creating an item, changing an item’s column values, and posting an update — need matching monday.com permission and explicit approval in CloudThinker.
Agent capabilities
Once connected, agents can:Verify the connection
Example prompts
Troubleshooting
OAuth flow does not complete
OAuth flow does not complete
Your browser may be signed in to a different monday.com account. Sign in to the intended account and retry the connection flow in CloudThinker.
An agent reports a board as empty
An agent reports a board as empty
monday.com answers an unknown, deleted, or invisible board id with an empty record rather than an error. Ask the agent to list your workspaces and boards first, then name the board from that list.
An agent cannot find a board you can see
An agent cannot find a board you can see
The OAuth flow may have run under an account without access to that board. Reconnect with the account that can open it. Recently visited boards are not the full inventory — boards belong to a workspace, and an agent has to read the workspace to list them.
An agent stops before changing an item
An agent stops before changing an item
Item writes are approval-gated. Approve the pending action in CloudThinker, or check that the authorizing monday.com account has write permission on that board.
Security
- Least privilege — grant only the permissions the agents need for your use case; start read-only and widen later.
- Read-only by default — use read-only credentials unless you want agents to make changes through this connection.
- Rotate credentials — rotate keys and tokens on your normal schedule; CloudThinker picks up the new value when you update the connection.
- Revoke on offboarding — remove the credential at the provider when you delete a connection or a teammate leaves.
- Approval for writes — keep item creation, column changes, and updates approval-gated in CloudThinker.
- No undo path — monday.com exposes no delete or archive tool, so remove anything an agent created from monday.com directly.
Related
Atlassian Connection
Jira and Confluence issue tracking and knowledge base
Approval
How approval-gated actions work